[It's a part of long and growing series I'll be posting shortly, but this one goes out of order due to sheer nastiness of the observed behaviour. Linus, PLEASE DO NOT APPLY until rmk is OK with it; the fix touches the guts of syscall glue on arm and I really, really want the people familiar with that area to review the damn thing before it goes anywhere near the tree] If a signal hits us outside of a syscall and another gets delivered when we are in sigreturn (e.g. because it had been in sa_mask for the first one and got sent to us while we'd been in the first handler), we have a chance of returning from the second handler to location one insn prior to where we ought to return. If r0 happens to contain -513 (-ERESTARTNOINTR), sigreturn will get confused into doing restart syscall song and dance. Incredible joy to debug, since it manifests as random, infrequent and very hard to reproduce double execution of instructions in userland code... The fix is simple - mark it "don't bother with restarts" in wrapper, i.e. set r8 to 0 in sys_sigreturn and sys_rt_sigreturn wrappers, suppressing the syscall restart handling on return from these guys. They can't legitimately return a restart-worthy error anyway. Testcase: #include <unistd.h> #include <signal.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <errno.h> void f(int n) { __asm__ __volatile__( "ldr r0, [%0]\n" "b 1f\n" "b 2f\n" "1:b .\n" "2:\n" : : "r"(&n)); } void handler1(int sig) { } void handler2(int sig) { raise(1); } void handler3(int sig) { exit(0); } main() { struct sigaction s = {.sa_handler = handler2}; struct itimerval t1 = { .it_value = {1} }; struct itimerval t2 = { .it_value = {2} }; signal(1, handler1); sigemptyset(&s.sa_mask); sigaddset(&s.sa_mask, 1); sigaction(SIGALRM, &s, NULL); signal(SIGVTALRM, handler3); setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, &t1, NULL); setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, &t2, NULL); f(-513); /* -ERESTARTNOINTR */ write(1, "buggered\n", 9); return 1; } Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S index f05a35a..34e5860 100644 --- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S @@ -418,11 +418,13 @@ ENDPROC(sys_clone_wrapper) sys_sigreturn_wrapper: add r0, sp, #S_OFF + mov why, #0 b sys_sigreturn ENDPROC(sys_sigreturn_wrapper) sys_rt_sigreturn_wrapper: add r0, sp, #S_OFF + mov why, #0 b sys_rt_sigreturn ENDPROC(sys_rt_sigreturn_wrapper) -- 1.5.6.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html